Koepala, a sustainable packaging company providing innovative solutions for on-the-go food, and global chemistry expertise company Kemira announce a cooperative partnership. This partnership is a result of the recent “Food for Thought” innovation challenge, which Koepala won. The challenge looked for new business models and alternatives to single-use plastics in food packaging. As a result, the two companies started to work collaboratively to test their solutions.
Koepala are a Helsinki based take-out food packaging development company. They innovate, test and seek to commercialize new packaging concepts. The end goal of Koepala’s innovation is to reduce the use of single-use plastics in food packaging. One of the unique elements of Koepala’s solution is that the packaging is engineered to be flat. It flexes in to a bowl shape to allow ease-of-use. Kemira’s chemistry expertise enables this unique design to take shape.
“The cooperation allows us to test our chemistry innovations for renewable food packaging very hands-on,” explains Sami Puttonen, Senior Manager at Kemira. “At Koepala, we are driven by our environmental commitments for sustainable, flat and flexible packaging solutions,” says Koepala’s CEO Janne Asikainen.
